Google pulls the plug on SOAP

Google Operating System blog reports on the plug pulling on Google's SOAP search. No WSDL any more, no programmatic searching, and you have to use the Ajax API in pages to access search. No thanks Google... sounds like you've decided to be a little bit evil.

So Cisco bring out the iPhone...

.... and I don't care. See Gizmodo piss their credibility up the wall here.

Me, I'm pondering what Apple could call a phone. Macall! A mac which calls. Sorted. And you can run around in a US TV cop voice going "MACALL! You've got a MACALL!".

I'll get me coat.

Tiny Shuffle.... needs.

Tiny Shuffle's need one thing, a tiny charger and this is a sweet teeny charger. I think a UK three pin adapter would play against it here of course. [via Engadget]

This is evil

Gizmodo shows us evil and it is annoying, annoying as a device which beeps at random at 2 to 8 minute intervals can be. Fair warning, if anyone plants one of these near me, prepare for them to be exposed to DEEEEEEEEEEEP HURTING.

Want! O-Ring Digi!

Gizmodo tempts me with the O-Ring Digi, a super sleek and sexy watch which can remind me about doughnuts.


Mmmmmmmm doughnuts....

Noise Cancelling done cheap

Engadget picks out JVCs new noise cancelling headphones with a neat ability to select the kind of cancelling it does, and all for $60.

Optimus.... oh dear....

Gizmodo brings the news that the Optimus keyboard has now taken on a new taste in suck, namely it's coming in black and white on the keys. All that photoshoppery was just that. Ah well.

Nintendo to rename Wii.....

Nintendo to rename the Wii to the Wiicrunchclattersmash for trade descriptions accuracy. (via Engadget)

Dock Pr0n

Back after a break... and first up is this mmmmm iPod dock (via Engadget). It's got teh shiny, teh valvez and apparently blue LEDs*. And a silly price.

* black enamel paint over the top of a blue LED makes them much more socially acceptable.

Blu-Ray was right for PS3....

Blu-Ray was right for the PS3. Want to know why? Well Blue Dragon on the Xbox 360 is coming on 3 DVDs, uncompressed, the data takes around 30GB. So, there is a need for a lot of data for games and putting a high capacity media in from day zero means developers don't have to worry about slicing their game over multiple DVDs.

Fat leg? A cable solution

Gizmodo again, mention a rather neat fat legged table which uses the fat leg as a cable routing duct. Simple... just be careful when you pull out the table from its corner... CRASH CLATTER CRUNCH.

The Antiergonomic mouse...

Gizmodo mentions a mouse with a built in card reader but I'm thinking that it'll be a pig to use if you put an SD card in and then have to mouse around to get at the stuff on the SD card. Still for £5.95, it screams stocking filler....

I'm Optimustic....

Engadget brings the news that Optimus are going to take preorders for their 103 LCD or OLED keyboard from December 12th. I'm not jumping into the queue, but I'm looking forward to the possibility of them actually not being the creation of an ace photoshopper.

I think my ride's here....

I think my ride is here. How cool is that? A personal blimp! And in funky wasp colours!

Palmsy

Palmsy, the inevitable decline of Palm; now it moves into farce with the delay of the Treo 680 because they made 144000 Treo 680's and forgot somewhere down the line to connect the internal microphone. (Via Gizmodo)

A screen for racing games....

Engadget boggles at Woojin's 19" monitor with integrated mini me, a 19" monitor sporting a 8 inch screen in it's top edge bezel. Why? Well, it could be for the rear view mirror display for racing games or....

No, sorry, I'm out of ideas...

Make your own Wacom Cintiq...

Engadget points out a chap who's made his own Wacom Cintiq, the rather lovely monitor/tablet from Wacom (usually followed by the words 'it costs how much?!', for the price prudent £100 and a lot of time. Kudos to the chap; now, come on Wacom, bring them Cintiq prices down; you got competition.

iPhone.... maybe.....

But I'll believe it when Steve goes "And just one more thing, oh hey, hold on I have a call", rather than ThinkSecret reading the far east trade sheets.

Shuttlised Keyboard

Here's a different keyboard with a jogwheel all set up where the arrow keys would be. Now, having a Shuttle Express I can't decide if the sacrifice of cursor keys is worth it. At least I can put the Shuttle out of the way when I'm not using it.

Laptop in repose?

Gizmodo brings news of the Easy Desk Aluminium which allows you to flake out on your back with your laptop above you. My only worry is the laptop is restrained by only a shelf edge.